After dying at the hands of the centaur she raised and the junior she trusted, she returns to life with a different choice. Instead of clinging to the past, she takes in a dying black-scaled lizard—the beast no one wanted. But that castoff is no ordinary creature; he’s a dragon prince. Together, they begin to rise, even as her ex-partner falls to ruin beside her betrayer. Soon, she uncovers an ancient curse about to be unleashed. This time, she refuses to be the sacrifice. She becomes the hunter, with a dragon ready to set the world ablaze for her.